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Major investment projects

Vector 1 - Construction and development of the electricity market infrastructure

Completed projects (2001-2008)

Retrofitting and modernizing the power transmission system – dispatch – a project approved based on the GD no.1149/2000, initiated in 2001 and finalized in 2007, totally amounting to USD 227 M. co-financed by EBRD, EBI and PHARE, having the following components: - FO telecommunication system (4,700 km OPGW on the OHL and 170 km - urban); - acquisition of a 7 AT 200 MVA, 220/110 kV, 3 AT 400 MVA, 400/220 kV and shunt reactor of 400 MVAr; - new EMS/SCADA systems at central and local level; - metering system for the wholesale electricity market; - hard and software for the electricity market operator OPCOM. Construction and development of the new balancing market and the new platform for the electricity market and the regional market (power exchange ) - OPCOM, with financing from the Word Bank; achieved in-between 2004 – 2008.

Underway projects

Platform of the Balancing Market, second stage: a project initiated in 2008, with the deadline in 2010.

Vector 2 - Modernizing and retrofitting the power substations within the PTG ; new substations